Forum Upgrade Hiccup

So I mentioned over here about some hiccups during the upgrade. Nothing major, but it was all your fault. Yes you, the blogging populace of BZPower.

Here's a quote from the IPS rep we worked with:

The long and short of all this is that the problem was with converting the tags in the blog. We've.. Still got problems there, and you have.. Somewhere around 69k tags.. Normally, I hit a site with 500 or 5000 tags.. Ok.. I can deal with that.. The sheer numbers here.. I had to get.. Shall we say.. Creative.

Geez guys, you got a little carried away over here, you think?

Anyway, they got through all the tags in the end, and hopefully it won't cause any problems in the future.

As a result of this, however, I have changed some settings for tags:Maximum length per tag: 20 charactersMaximum tags per item: 5 tags

I think this should still be plenty for all your tagging needs.

We're not going to implement any new rules other than the above, but please try to take it easy with the tags.

Luckily, I hadn't gotten into the tagging business before. I'm not sure what to do now, was gonna use them for the 'alternative titles' I used to have, but I think it might be best if I continue that, and simply use tags for normal things. If I run out of space, that's what categories are for. =P

I dunno if part of the problem was that descriptions from blog entries before the downtime seemed to become tags on the new system. At least I think that happened, certainly my blog has some weird things that I would never put as tags, because they're simply too long. But that would probably account for such large numbers of tags.

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